As the team with the worst record in the
2015 NA LCS Summer regular season,
Team Dragon Knights was automatically relegated to the
NA Challenger Series. As the eighth and ninth team places respectively,
Team 8 and
Enemy eSports were obligated to play in a promotion tournament against the second and third place Challenger teams, who were
Team Coast and
Team Imagine respectively. Enemy was relegated after losing to Coast 3–0, but Team 8 beat Imagine 3–1 to remain in the LCS. The two teams that won the Promotion matches both sold their spots to other teams before the start of the spring split. The
LA Renegades were automatically promoted by winning the
NA Challenger Series. A total of three teams, Team Coast, Team 8, and
Gravity Gaming sold their NA LCS spots, all to new esports organizations that had been created for the sole purpose of being in the LCS. Team Coast sold their spot to
NRG eSports, Team 8 sold their spot to
Immortals, and Gravity's spot was sold to
Echo Fox.
Team Impulse had announced their intentions to sell their spot, but failed to do so prior to the original deadline. However, after the Spring Split, Team Impulse managed to sel it's spot to
Phoenix1 just before the start of the Summer Split. == Spring ==